Supplement  to  Quarterly  Bulletin,  Feb.  1894 

PRIZES 

^  OF  THE 

Stewart  Jissionary  Foundation  for  Africa 


— IN- 


Gammon  Theological  Seminary. 


Rev.  Wm.  F.  Stewart,  A.  M.,  of  the  Rock  River  Conference  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  is  establishing  a  Missionary  Founda¬ 
tion  for  Africa  in  Gammon  Theological  Seminary.  The  history,  pur¬ 
pose  and  scope  of  this  movement  are  given  in  our  Quarterly  Bul¬ 
letin  for  February,  1894,  a  copy  of  which  is  sent  to  each  institution 
for  preservation  in  its  library,  where  the  file  can  be  consulted  for 
fuller  information.  To  inaugurate  the  work  of  this  Foundation 
Brother  Stewart,  through  the  Faculty,  announces  the  following 
missionary  prizes. 

It  is  very  desirable  that  the  President,  Principal  or  Executive  Offi¬ 
cer  of  each  institution  to  which  these  circulars  are  sent,  should  at 
once  make  a  full  public  announcement  of  these  prizes,  especially  of 
those  open  to  his  students,  and  that  all  the  members  of  the  faculty 
of  each  institution  should  use  their  moral  influence  to  induce  all  of 
their  qualified  students  to  compete  and  prepare  the  most  attractive 
and  largely  attended  public  contest  practicable.  The  importance  of 
this  movement  to  the  race  and  to  the  Kingdom  of  Christ  cannot  well 
be  estimated,  and  places  upon  all  our  teachers  and  students  a  very 
great  obligation  to  show  their  hearty  co-operation  with  the  efforts  of 
this  man  of  God  who  has  shown  in  this  foundation  such  a  large  heart, 
such  consecration,  and  such  far-reaching  plans  for  the  Negro  race. 
The  desire  is  that  all  qualified  students  shall  be  urged  to  compete, 
and  that  from  their  productions  the  best,  and  only  such  as  are  deemed 
worthy  by  the  local  faculty,  shall  appear  for  public  competition. 
These  local  contests  in  each  institution  should  be  held,  and  the 
names  of  the  successful  competitors,  with  the  choice  of  prizes  where 


an  alternative  is  given,  and  the  prize  productions  should  be  for¬ 
warded  to  the  faculty  of  Gammon  Theological  Seminary  by  April 
ijth,  next,  hence  no  time  is  to  be  lost. 

The  third  grade  prize  for  missionary  hymns  wall  be  a  121110  hymnal 
with  tunes,  handsomely  bound  in  extra  morocco,  red  under  gold 
edges  (No.  375). 

The  third  grade  prize  for  essays  will  be  a  handsomely  bound 
Teacher’s  Bible,  or  Blaikie’s  “  Personal  Life  of  David  Livingstone.” 

The  second  grade  prize  for  hymns  will  be  a  121110  hymnal  with 
tunes,  handsomely  bound  in  morocco,  flexible,  red  under  gold  edges, 
round  corners  (No.  496),  or  Nutter’s  Hymn  Studies,  similarly  bound. 

The  second  grade  prize  for  essays  and  orations  will  be  a  hand¬ 
somely  bound  Teacher’s  Bible  (a  costlier  edition  than  the  above), 
or  Dawson’s  “Life  of  Bishop  Hannington.” 

The  first  grade  prize  for  hymns  will  be  a  handsomely  bound  81110 
hymnal  with  tunes,  Levant  morocco,  divinity  circuit,  leather  lined, 
silk  sewed,  round  corners,  red  under  gold  edges,  or  Nutter’s  “Hymn 
Studies,”  similarly  bound. 

The  first  grade  prize  for  essays  will  be  Stanley’s  “The  Congo  and 
the  Founding  of  its  Free  State,”  two  vols.,  handsomely  bound. 

The  first  grade  prize  for  orations  will  be  Stanley’s  “  In  Darkest 
Africa,”  two  vols.,  handsomely  bound. 

Where  there  is  an  alternative  in  the  foregoing,  it  is  expected  to 
give  the  recipient  of  the  prize  the  choice  if  we  can  complete  suitable 
arrangements  with  the  publishers.  All  of  these  books  are  elegantly 
bound,  and  the  most  of  them  will  be  specially  prepared  for  these 
prizes.  They  will  each  have  printed  upon  them  in  suitable  gold  let¬ 
tering  the  name  of  the  recipient  and  “  Prize,  1894 ;  Stewart  Mission¬ 
ary  Foundation  for  Africa,  Gammon  Theological  Seminary.” 

The  purpose  and  conditions  of  the  prizes  are  as  follows  : 

1.  The  object  of  the  giving  of  the  prizes  is  to  encourage  investi¬ 
gation,  spread  intelligence  and  stimulate  personal  and  property  con¬ 
secration  among  the  Negro  race  in  America  for  missionary  work  in 
Africa. 

2.  There  are  three  series  of  prizes,  an  academy,  a  college,  and  a 
theological  seminary  series,  open  to  the  students  of  institutions 
among  colored  people  under  the  auspices  of  the  Freedmen’s  Aid  and 
Southern  Education  Society  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

3.  There  are  given  in  each  of  the  series  prizes  for  missionary 
hymns,  subject  not  otherwise  limited,  of  not  less  than  four  nor  more 
than  eight  single  stanzas  of  four  lines  each,  or  not  less  than  three 
1104  more  than  six  stanzas  of  six  to  eight  lines  each;  and  in  the  acad¬ 
emy  and  college  series  prizes  for  essays  of  1,500-2,500  words  (act¬ 
ual  count),  and  in  the  theological  seminary  series  prizes  for  orations 


of  1,200-2,000  words.  All  these  essays  and  orations  are  to  be  on 
.some  subject  connected  with  Africa  as  a  missionary  field,  or  mis¬ 
sionary  work  in  Africa. 

4.  The  giving  of  the  prizes  to  the  students  of  any  institution  is 
conditioned  on  the  following:  That  there  be  held  under  the  direc¬ 
tion  of  the  faculty  a  local  contest  in  which  all  the  accepted,  competing 
productions  are  presented  free  to  the  public  ;  that  each  production 
be  the  work  solely  of  the  individual  student,  all  instructions  by  the 
faculty  or  others  being  given  before  the  composing  of  any  part  of 
the  production-,  that  each  prize  production  be  regarded  as  the  prop¬ 
erty  of  the  Stewart  Missionary  Foundation  for  Africa  in  Gammon 
Theological  Seminary,  for  publicatidn  with  proper  credit  to  the  au¬ 
thor  ;  and  that  a  copy  of  each  prize'  production,  in  the  handwriting 
of  the  author,  be  sent  to  the  faculty  of  the  Seminary  for  preserva¬ 
tion. 

5.  No  person  who  has  taken  a  ptize  in  any  series  shall  be  eligible 
again  for  the  same  kind  of  a  prize1  another  year  (L  e.  for  hymn,  essay 
or  oration)  in  the  same  series ;  no  person,  in  any  one  year,  is  eligible 
for  more  than  one  kind  of  prize,  and  no  person  shall  receive  more 
than  one  prize,  i.  e.  the  higher  grade  prizes  shall,  in  the  case  of 
those  who  receive  them,  take  the  place  of  the  lower  grades. 

6.  In  the  academy  series  one  prize  of  the  third  grade  will  be  given 
to  the  person  adjudged  to  have  produced  the  best  hymn,  and  one 
prize  of  the  third  grade  to  the  person  adjudged  to  have  produced 
the  best  essay  in  the  local  contest  in  each  academy. 

7.  No  one  is  eligible  for  the  academy  prizes  who  has  not  reached 
an  his  regular  classification  at  least  the  highest  grade  in  the  “  Eng¬ 
lish  Course”  next  to  the  academic  or  normal  course  proper. 

S.  The  faculty  of  Gammon  Theological  Seminary  shall  judge  who 
of  the  successful  competitors  in  all  the  academies  have  produced  the 
best  hymn  and  who  the  best  essay,  and  they  shall  each  receive  a 
prize  of  the  second  grade. 

9.  In  the  college  series  a  prize  of  the  third  grade  will  be  given  to 
each  of  three  (or  less)  who  are  adjudged  by  the  local  faculty  to  have 
produced  hymns  worthy  to  compete  (not  more  than  the  three  best 
hymns  being  accepted)  in  the  local  public  contest,  but  the  one  of 
these  who  is  adjudged  in  that  contest  to  have  the  best  hymn  shall 
receive  a  prize  of  the  second  grade. 

10.  In  the  college  series  a  prize  of  the  third  grade  will  be  given 
to  each  of  the  three  (or  less)  who  are  are  judged  by  the  local  faculty 
to  have  produced  essays  worthy  to  compete  (not  more  than  the  three 
best  essays  being  accepted)  in  the  local  public  contest,  but  the  one 
of  these  who  is  adjudged  in  that  contest  to  have  the  best  essay  shall 
receive  a  prize  of  the  second  grade. 


11.  Only  those  who  have  passed  in  their  regular  classification  be¬ 
yond  the  “  English  grades  ”  and  into  the  normal,  college  prepara¬ 
tory,  college,  or  other  advanced  work,  are  eligible  for  the  college 
prizes. 

12.  The  faculty  of  the  Gammon  Theological  Seminary  shall  judge 
who  of  those  receiving  the  highest  prizes  in  the  local  college  contests 
for  hymns  and  essays  have,  in  each  case,  the  best  and  second  best 
production  from  all  the  colleges,  and  the  one  having  the  best  hymn 
and  the  one  having  the  best  essay,  shall  each  receive  a  prize  of  the 
first  grade,  and  the  one  having  the  second  best  hymn  and  the  one 
having  the  second  best  essay  shall  each  receive  a  prize  of  the  first 
grade,  but  less  in  value  than  the  foregoing. 

13.  In  the  Theological  Seminary  series  a  prize  of  the  second  grade 
will  be  given  to  each  of  the  three  (or  less)  who  are  judged  by  the 
faculty  to  have  produced  hymns  worthy  to  compete  (not  more  than 
the  three  best  hymns  being  accepted)  in  the  public  contest,  but  the 
one  of  these  who  i-;  adjudged  in  the  contest  to  have  the  best  hymn 
shall  receive  a  prize  of  the  first  grade. 

14.  In  the  Theological  Seminary  series  a  prize  of  the  second  grade 
will  be  given  to  each  of  the  three  (or  less)  who  are  judged  by  the 
faculty  of  Gammon  Theological  Seminary  to  have  produced  orations 
worthy  to  compete  (not  more  than  the  three  best  orations  being  ac¬ 
cepted)  in  the  public  contest,  but  the  one  of  these  who  is  adjudged  in 
the  contest  to  have  the  best  oration  shall  receive  a  prize  of  the  first 
grade. 

15.  Only  those  who  are  regularly  classified  in  the  middle  or  senior 
class  of  the  Seminary  shall  be  eligible  to  compete  in  the  Theological 
Seminary  series. 

16.  There  shall  be  held  under  the  direction  of  the  faculty  of  Gam¬ 
mon  Theological  Seminary,  near  the  close  of  the  school  year,  a  public 
Missionary  Exhibition  at  which  shall  be  presented  free  to  the  public 
all  the  orations  and  essays  which  have  received  during  the  year  first 
grade  prizes,  and  the  essay  of  the  academy  series  which  has  received 
the  highest  prize  in  that  series,  and  all  the  hymns  which  have  re¬ 
ceived  first  and  second  grade  prizes.  When  the  authors  cannot  con¬ 
veniently  be  present,  the  productions  are  to  be  read,  recited  or  sung 
by  others  selected  for  the  purpose. 

If  the  foregoing  conditions  are  not  understood,  or  any  further  in¬ 
formation  is  desired,  we  will,  be  glad  to  answer  any  inquiries  ad¬ 
dressed  to  us  by  the  executive  officer  or  other  members  of  the  faculty 
of  the  institutions. 

Faculty  of  Gammon  Theological  Seminary, 

W.  P.  THIRKIELD,  President. 


Atlanta,  Ga.,  Feb.  20,  1894. 


